Word: mansion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...inspiration. Christopher's emotional control, bordering on stolidity, was the antithesis of her neurotic nature, which was of a lasciviousness so intense as to be quite "pure." A Catholic, she could not divorce him. An old school Tory, he would not divorce her. He set his jaw, closed his mansion, saw his father commit suicide, his mother die of grief, when he was bruited a maquereau, (wife-seller). His code, so ancient that society could not recognize it, commanded silence. He took the blame, pretending to have liaisons of his own. When, furious at her failure to make him wince...
Married. Miss Consuelo Vanderbilt, daughter of the William Kissam Vanderbilts, to one Earl E. T. Smith of Manhattan; at the W. K. Vanderbilt mansion, soon to be replaced by a commercial structure, Fifth Avenue, Manhattan. Exuberant, the Chicago Tribune reported, "Four gallons of rare perfume were used to spray the interior of the house...
...equality of opportunity to enjoy the benefits of higher education. College doors have been thrown open to the world, and over their portals have been inscribed a standing invitation to "Enter to grow in wisdom." From all directions and all conditions of life the aspirants have come: from mansion and hovel, from city and village, from adequate background and from no background at all, the motley thousands have crowded within the college gates...
...swollen hand, while Mrs. Harding wore out three pairs of kid gloves. President and Mrs. Coolidge had 4,890 guests in 1924, and 3,900 last year. George and Martha Washington inaugurated the New Year's reception (for invited guests) in her Court at the Executive Mansion in Manhattan. Andrew Jackson first opened the reception to the public...
President von Hindenburg: "I personally superintended the decoration of the Executive Mansion and assisted at the trimming of the Christmas tree. I reflected that 50% of the cost of the tree had been paid to the Government as a luxury...